If asked, "Who are you"" most people would not find it difficult to answer. But what if there was no answer to this question? What if someone had no true identity? What if the only way to truly achieve an identity was to beat society at its own game? In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the narrator of the story learns that he is incapable of achieving a true identity because of society and it's tendency to prevent specific people or groups of people from attaining certain accomplishments crucial for life. Abraham Maslow believed that these accomplishments could be arranged in a collection called a "Hierarchy of Needs." These particular "needs" include physiological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem and self-actualization (Chapman 1). Maslow believed that people are "motivated by unsatisfied needs, and that certain lower needs need to be satisfied before higher needs can be satisfied" (Gwynne 1). The invisible man...